That truly was an epic lesson. Information packed and fantastically delivered. Thanks so much. Seriously well done.

@BillHilton

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks Martin - glad you liked it. There was quite a bit of teeth-grinding, scrunching up of pieces of paper and throwing them across the room, making of toast and coffee, stomping around and eye-rolling involved in getting this one right, so I'm pleased it's going down well...!

@tonylars4128

4 жыл бұрын

Many thanks, I've been looking for "piano chords lessons for beginners" for a while now, and I think this has helped. Have you heard people talk about - Nonason Ranincoln Genie - (do a search on google )? It is a great one of a kind product for discovering how to play the piano like a pro without the normal expense. Ive heard some awesome things about it and my m8 got great success with it.

@elenatorres4934

4 жыл бұрын

This was great, thanks, I been tryin to find out about "playing piano by chords beginner" for a while now, and I think this has helped. Have you heard people talk about - Nonason Ranincoln Genie - (should be on google have a look )? It is a smashing exclusive guide for discovering how to play the piano like a pro minus the hard work. Ive heard some incredible things about it and my neighbour got amazing success with it.

just started learning piano last june but had a background of piano theory...and im on my 20s... this is a good video Step 1 1:50 Step 2 4:48 Step 3 10:08 Step 4 16:01 Step 5 17:50

@Majestic469

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@halopacific7330

4 жыл бұрын

DANgerous DANtiest ty

@SwiftLikesGames

4 жыл бұрын

DANgerous DANtiest how did u learn I’m starting now did u use videos or a teacher ?

@ninsophy9798

2 жыл бұрын

@@SwiftLikesGames pianote's lessons really helped on my first week. I doubt you still need them now, but you know... for any bypassers out there

Thanks for the video, this is perfect for my kind-of-understand-music-theory-but-also-not-really level

@BillHilton

5 жыл бұрын

No problem Justin - glad it helped!

thank you so much Bill Hilton! I'm going to play piano accompaniment (for the first time) in sunday school in 2 weeks time. your videos are so helpful

I am a beginner pianist and your channel is one of the most useful channels in KZread, especially technically. I rarely comment but this time I would just like to share what I love from this channel: it is the topic and the explanation you give is always so much detailed, complex and lengthy. The downside of it is of course they can be pretty boring to watch sometimes and many technical jargons you say make me unable to digest your lesson right away hahaha, I always need to replay twice or more to fully grasp it. But (and it's a big but ;) if somehow I can tolerate or pass them through, your complicated lessons can eventually be very rich and insightful. As I grow up to be more familiar with your fast and sophisticated explanation, I came to find that your contents gave me so many stuffs I cannot get in other channels. And just for that, I need to say "thank you very much". Keep sharing your knowledges, please. -a beginner pianist from Indonesia

@BillHilton

3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome - check out my reply to your other comment! Btw, to add to that, have you tried using the KZread speed function to slow down the video when you need to? It won't help with the language, but it's pretty handy for the practical stuff :)

This is by far the best video I have ever seen! I can pick the melody by ear but always wonder how chords work. This video is definitely going to help me. Thank You so much Sir !!

Thank you breaking down the steps! At an even more rudimentary level, here are just three main steps I figured out and personally used to learn how to play songs & melodies on the fly, extemporaneously, and by ear presented in my 55-word poem titled “I Can Jive in 55!” To play song by ear end song on note C to make learning easy by avoiding black keys. To add chords to song play root BELOW melody on main down beats at intervals 1, 5, or 3. Now play each chord by following the root with notes 5, 8, 10 then add notes to suit. **The one thing that made it all suddenly click for me was focusing on the root-melody note intervals with the realization that the root note is either 1, 3, or 5 note intervals BELOW the melodic notes played on the main down beats (or immediately after the down beats following a passing note). This enabled me to find the chords just by mirroring whatever notes are played on the right hand and suddenly enabling me to play a song in any key.

Your videos are so great!! Thank you so much for your generosity with sharing them with us!

Thank you so much Bill for your detailed and clearly explained video!!

Thank you so much! Your videos are so clear and informative

One of the best tutorials I've found. Thanks Bill!

Hi I just wanted to say that your lessons are really well explained and it explains things without going overboard!! Very well done

Brilliant. As usual 😀 thank you, keep doing the great job

Love your lessons!! Thank you Bill.

THANK you for your wonderful videos! I am coming back to piano, 20 years after childhood lessons. You make playing SO much more fun and easy than I remember it being.

@BillHilton

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks Noel - always good to hear when my stuff is making a difference!

This is one of the best tutorial i have ever listened to, i actually learned so much thank you

@BillHilton

4 жыл бұрын

You're welcome, Conor - glad it helped!

Great lesson - thanks for your efforts on this video. Helpful!

Really love this video. Great breakdown.

Bill thank you so much I absolutely love your Channel. I feel like you're answering all the questions I ever had about music but never knew where to look. I feel invigorated and ready to learn you're an amazing teacher. I look very forward to all your videos and I'm going to take a look at your book. Awesome Channel

@BillHilton

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jason - I'm really glad you like it. The kind words are appreciated!

Thanks Bill. I was directed to this video from your video on "3 Left Hand Chord Patterns", which by the way is an excellent video. This video really cleared up a lot of things for me concerning playing the melody with the proper chord on the BEAT. as always your videos are right on point.

@BillHilton

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Alvin - glad it was useful for you! :)

Awesome! Learned a lot here!

Brilliantly simplified Bill. Thanks. Appreciate your efforts to pull a complete understanding together into developmental steps. A great reference piece to keep coming back to as Chord accompanyment develops. Schaun.

@BillHilton

3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome, Schaun - glad you found it useful!

your book cover designs are great!

Great lesson! The method behind the madness is a lot clearer now, thanks.

Thanks Bill, great lessons👍👍👍

Your videos are amazing . Thank you so much for helping me learn all this !

@BillHilton

6 жыл бұрын

No problem Christine - glad to be of help!

Very passionate video! Thank you very much

Finally someone plainly mentions that Chord progression is not objective or fixed for a given melody. I have not seen anyone remotely suggesting that since they are too dumb and amateur to even understand these fundamental basics. We can improvise and change chords, however it should be under those definite canonical ways. This is the best tutorial of Chords on YT.

@BillHilton

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind words, Michael - I’m glad you think I got the approach right!

Excellent teacher. It’s really helping me to enjoy piano practice again. Thanks Bill

@BillHilton

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Michael - really glad to be of help!

Really helpful, provides a lot of useful tips and insights into working out the chords. I really hope you will do more of this type of lessons, for more advanced songs (popular ones) and to figure it out by ear. Solfege / singing has helped me a bit, but maybe you can give new insights. And will you do lessons about how to play keys in a band, I'd greatly appreciate that! I bought your 7 studies book.

@BillHilton

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Tim - glad to hear it's been of use! I'll add those suggestions to my list - some quite interesting ones there. Thanks very much!

Thank you for posting this video. Might be helpful to start by presenting an overview of the main steps or idea. When you put it all in a nut shell, one can find the chords by playing with left hand pinky the notes at 1, 3, or 5 note intervals (+1 octave) BELOW the melodic note played on down beats or immediately after the down beat following a PASSING note in the melody (as in the song hap-py-BIRTH-day).

What a thorough explanation sir. Thank you very much, I appreciate it! You should be very proud of this video.

@BillHilton

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

thanks a lot, it's really well done

Exactly what I was looking for - great tutorial!

@BillHilton

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Alexander!

Thank you! This was a huge help. Excellent tutorial!!!!👍🏽

@BillHilton

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it helped Consuella - you're welcome!

Brilliant work, as usual. Thanks.

@BillHilton

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks Stefano!

This is so helpful, thank you!

@BillHilton

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

These are excellent videos :) Thanks for posting !

@BillHilton

2 жыл бұрын

You’re welcome, Steven - I’m glad you like them!

Wow, what an explanation. Very interesting video.

you are simply amazing. thank you

Thanks so much! I started learning piano yesterday and this helps a lot. 🙂

@BillHilton

4 жыл бұрын

Happy to hear that! Shout if you have any questions!

Brilliant tutorial. Thanks for sharing

@Daeshawn23

6 жыл бұрын

Tony B vy

Thanks a lot sir! 🙏

Maestro! Gracias!

jups, thank you very very much!👍

Actually so helpful wow

Excellent tutorial. Its very useful lesson for learners.

@eugenejackson6441

6 жыл бұрын

Skumar Sharma i

@eugenejackson6441

6 жыл бұрын

Very nice!

That was so interesting, thanks.

yes I like your way how you do it .. I do it similary .. but not so profesional like you :) but is great to whatch it form somebody who know how to do it :)

Excellent tutorial. I would be very interested to know more about how to use sus 4 or sus 2 chords and how they resolve to their natural chords in a chord progression. If two chords side by side in a progression share the same root note but are different chords then you are resolving to a basic minor or major chord and not resolving to the tonic. It's harder for me to work out chord progression in those situations. What I mean is when you go from a C sus 4 followed by a C major chord or alternatively when you go from a C7 to a C chord. I think you touched on that in part 5.

@BillHilton

7 жыл бұрын

Hmmmm, yep, that's tricky. I think the situation you're describing (certainly with the C7>C for example) is relatively unusual, because it would create a loss of forward momentum and flow in a progression (they're called "progressions" for a reason...!) before the point of release came with a dominant or dominant-like chord and the return to the tonic. So, C>C7 in C major is common (or common-ish, especially in jazz era songs) because you're going from stability to instability; to go from instability to stability *without* some sort of dominant (or sub-dom, or dom substitution function) would be awkward, and probably only tend to happen in the context of, say, an ostinato blues bass line, or if a composer was after a very specific effect. The Csus4>C or Cadd9>C thing is a lot easier because the instability in those chords implies a partial resolution (from subdominant to tonic or dominant to tonic). This is one of those areas where you need a real music theory rocket scientist to dig into things, and where those of us without PhDs in the subject have to fall back on our ears and our fingers to puzzle out solutions that make sense.

Great stuff... Many thanks.

@BillHilton

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Richard - you’re welcome!

Do you have any video course?....I love your teaching style, and I'm looking for some online course that is step by step, and will also have exercises for being fluent in keyboard.

Hey Bill, another great tutorial, I always love learning basic music theory from you that is actually really useful. I understand that what you've got going is a bit more music theory, and buildup of skills, but as you say in this video, playing songs is a great way to gain experience, so I was wondering if you ever considered doing a tutorial on a song or two. I know that the types of tutorials you do now are difficult, and are much appreciated. While I'm sure that teaching a song is also difficult, and might not be the thing you're going for, perhaps it would free you from considering what subject to next cover, and how to boil it down to a practical level, and allow you to simply help with a song or two. Just a thought, likely an unoriginal one as well, and I've no idea how one goes about this, but obviously I already love the videos you're putting out now. Thanks. Always looking forward to your videos. Nate

@BillHilton

7 жыл бұрын

Hey Nate: good question, and one that often comes up. I tend to avoid song tutorials for a number of reasons. First, there are potential copyright issues given that most songs people would be interested in are in copyright, and although lots of people get away with breaking the rules every day on KZread, this is one of my main sources of income and I want my account to remain in good standing. So, although I do sometimes reference particular songs, I'm very cautious about staying within fair use guidelines. Believe it or not, I've actually taken legal advice on this, and the advice (you won't be surprised to learn...) boiled down to "be cautious"! Second, I have a kind of "give someone a fish and you feed them for a day, teach them to fish and you feed them for life" attitude to what I do on here. Now, I see exactly where you're coming from because doing a song-specific tutorial could be handy for analysis purposes - but, so far at least, I've seen the potential benefits as too marginal to stretch the copyright rules. I hope that makes sense!

@nathanward4899

7 жыл бұрын

That is perfectly reasonable; both the philosophy and the cautiousness. I am aware of an account that was recently suspended simply because the youtuber was using some cartoon character as his avatar. Better safe than sorry. Thanks for the response.

Great, thanks!

Great video !

@BillHilton

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks David!

can you explain what you did with Am to Em and tgen made Emaj chord or like Adding Eb to C scale

This video only made me more confused. I'm trying to figure out the chords of the intro of Uprooted by The Antlers. I have the melody figured out E3, E3-D2, D2-G#3, F#3-E3-C#4 E3-G#3, E3, E3-D#3 But it doesn't sound right at all when I follow this tutorial

can u plz tell how to find the most perfect chord progression easily in a stage programme for an unknown song

thank u very much sir

I have a song which I wrote years ago.... I figured out the piano intro for the song, However I stopped after the lyrics started, didn't know which keys to press to make it suitable for the song

How would you apply this to Moon River, which appears to be a simple melody but uses chords that are not obvious? For example, in two measures where the melody note on the first beat is B but the chord is F.

Thank you very much for sharing this

@BillHilton

3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure Saarthi!

Hi Bill, nice lesson on harmonisation. For a subsequent tutorial, would you maybe consider doing something about voicing seventh chords in a given chord progression to accompany a melody (possibly a Christmas tune at this time of year)? Thanks and looking forwrd to the next vid.

@BillHilton

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks! A tutorial using a Christmas tune is winging its way towards right now - if all goes well it should be going live on Friday (so you have plenty of time to practise before Christmas....). It's not heavy on stuff about sevenths, but now you've mentioned it I'll go back to my planning notes and drop something in...

@HubertEtAlice

7 жыл бұрын

Hello Bill, I really thing that voicing and voice-leading 7th chords is a skill evryone wishing to improvise on the piano and/or to write little pieces for the piano should possess, and which would deserve a tutorial in its own right. I was simply mentionning Christmas because, well, it is the season ;-) I am looking forward to your forthcoming Christmas piano tutorial. All the best and thanks again for all the work you are putting for us enthusiastic amateur pianists :-)

Mr Hilton,I would like to draw your attention on this,am from Ghana and I am really in need of your Book "how to really play the piano" but can't find one here to purchase,do you have a distribution outlet here in Ghana?

Great stuff

@BillHilton

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ganesh!

I bought your book and find it valuable for reference, dipping in and "cherry picking". As regards finding chords, this video is very helpful - but I find that I can chord the significant notes in a melody by playing a triad with the left hand keeping the melody note in the middle of the triad (sometimes improving the sound with slight alterations of the 1 and 5 note). What's up with that?

@BillHilton

7 жыл бұрын

Hey Robert - thanks for buying the book. I'm glad it's useful! I can see how the approach you're talking about there would give you a pretty good result, assuming you use the notes of the key you're in to build the triad. Now, if you just played strict root position triads it wouldn't work so well, because any given note in the melody won't necessarily be the middle (3rd) note of the underlying chord. Those "slight alterations" you're talking about will, in all probability, be allowing you to vary the inversions of the chords and thus give you a more reliable result. One thing to be aware of is that very regular chord changing might give you a slightly odd sound for some songs and tunes, especially more modern ones. It might give you a rather hymnal effect, for a start (traditional hymns and chorales tend to have lots of chord changes and thus lots of chord notes in the melody line, and relatively few passing notes, whereas more contemporary songs have fewer changes and more passing notes).

Bill you're My Hero. You make learning how to play the piano a feast! Thx. Will order your book right away

@BillHilton

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks Leo - I really hope you like it!

Hi Bill. As a self learner, I had not appreciated that I need to learn major and minor chord scales specific for every key to ensure that every note in all the chords belong to the key. I mistakenly thought that chord progressions simply meant applying the progression number for the key to identify a standard major or standard minor root chord which meant notes in the chord not necessarily belonging to the key.

hi bill,can i ask a question..this is for my left hand piano playing..if i am playing octave on left hand(thumb and pinky),for example im in F(octave) and the next note to be played is A(octave),my question is should i look on my pinky OR thumb finger when switching another note?thanks bill.do you know what i mean?thanks

@BillHilton

7 жыл бұрын

I know exactly what you mean! I tend to focus on where my fifth/pinkie is and let the thumb look after itself to some extent. That feels natural, and has the slight advantage that if one of the notes lands slightly wrongly, it's less likely to be the lower, more powerful one - if you see what I mean?

Bill, wow, another Class A video, Sir! I must share with you that I have studied around six other videos on this topic and they never worked for me. BILL this video works for me!!!!!!!!! I am going to study, memorize and apply it, first learningvit in sections and then eventually putting it all together during my daily piano practice a little by little to really make it my own and I never could have done it withoyt you, Bill! I am so excited to finally have an open doorway to walk through into enhancing my pianism in the realm of this critical musical skill-thank you a million times, thank you😁 May I please ask you a question and just answer at your own convenience. What do you honestly think, please?: Frequently, when playing Albumblatt (Fur Elise) in the key of A minor, my fingers without my mind's direction improvises right into Beethoven's famous piece of his romance gone wrong and I think it could be so much fun for me to listen to what is coming forth from my fingers, without even thinking about it. FIRST, is it disrespectful to Beethoven to improvise into His famous works? That is why I always stop myself from doing so and I never allow myself to enjoy it for not desiring to be disrespectful. Bill is it okay and possibly even educational to allow myself to listen to my fingers production into His famous works? Take care, Friend-Thank you and May God Bless you and yours😁

@BillHilton

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Karen - I'm really glad that my stuff is proving so useful for you! With regard to Beethoven, I'm very firmly of the opinion that the old guy is quite big enough to take you noodling around with his music a little bit. So go right ahead: I'd say you're potentially doing something very useful for your own learning. The more I think about it, the more I'm convinced that harnessing creativity is one of the best ways to learn about music - I'm planning some tutorials on exactly that subject right now…

@TheSunshinedreamer1

4 жыл бұрын

@@BillHilton Hi Bill! Thank you for all your advice and I accept your expertise, and I will let you know how it goes, Sir:) Now, I am so excited for Your videos on harnessing our musical creativity-do you happen to know your title for the first one in this series? No hurry, do take your time and at your convenience please respond with your new title and any further advice and input to this message so I can study along!

Sir very nicely explained I really want to learn how to play instrumental music will I be able to learn it just by learning chords Plzzzz help in guiding me sir I don't have any tutor. Love💓 from INDIA 🇮🇳

thank you!!!!

@BillHilton

3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

Great!

How would you know what's the on beat for different time signatures? Like 3/4 for example?

@BillHilton

7 жыл бұрын

So, the first beat of any bar is always an on beat (*unless* you're playing jazz and other swinging styles, in which case the patterns of on and off beats are reversed from what they are in "straight" music). From there, you can usually work out from the feel of the music where the stressed beats are. In 3/4 there's usually only one on beat per bar (ONE two three ONE two three). In 6/8 it's beats it's usually beats one and four (ONE two three FOUR five six), although as with 4/4 the second onbeat isn't stressed quite as the first. It can vary a little bit (especially, as I said, with jazzy styles) so the thing to do, as usual, is to trust your ears and tap out the beat for yourself - where does the onbeat seem to lie? Your instinct for it will usually be right.

what happens if the chords are played in a syncopated rhythm, will the melody correspond to the beats? or the syncopated chords when you say on beats and off beats?

@BillHilton

7 жыл бұрын

Good question! As I say in the tutorial, thinking about on beats and off beats is tricky when you're dealing with swinging styles like jazz and blues, the stress is usually on the off beat rather than the onbeat. That doesn't generally affect the overall structure of the chord progression (you often get anticipations in performance, where a chord comes in slightly earlier than usual, but that isn't often notationally represented in a chord chart) so you can still use the techniques here perfectly well - I mentioned it because it could be a source of confusion if someone went away thinking that all music in duple or quadruple time had the on-off stress pattern.

Another excellent tutorial! The methods shown here are golden that's for sure. Thanks so much. Ben --- a personal question here ---- do you have the 'perfect pitch/absolute pitch' attribute? ! As in - do you have that ability of absolute/perfect pitch?

@BillHilton

3 жыл бұрын

No I don't, and in some ways I'm glad I don't - it can be useful (esp when singing in a choir) but everyone I know who has it finds things that are out of tune really unbearable!

@southpark4151

3 жыл бұрын

@@BillHilton Thanks very much for letting me know Bill! I had wondered if there were at least some very high level pianists out there that don't depend on 'absolute' pitch. And I genuinely assumed that all the very high level pianists out there (including you) had 'absolute' pitch. I believe that you're right too - about it can be an issue sometimes. Also - interestingly, it looks like a study was done by a well known university, where the findings indicate that people have a significantly chance of being able to acquire absolute pitch from some training program. Not necessarily permanent absolute pitch - but it would be lasting for quite a long time with appropriate training. Hard to say at what 'level' some of those candidates reached. But I'm thinking that their training at least allowed at least some people to be able to truly recognise or generate (in their mind) a single note (eg. an 'E') for calibration. But - on the other hand - after hearing your answer here ----- I now know that absolute pitch isn't a necessity for high level piano playing! Also - I managed to order your book 'how to really play the piano' - which is in transit right now, and will likely be arriving soon! That book is going to keep me happy indefinitely! It is going to be really good for me that's for sure. Thanks again Bill. Genuinely appreciated!

When to use diminished chords?

I haven't understand anything even i watch whole video😅 Btw nice playing and you have an awesome voice😊👍 Well subscribed

@BillHilton

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Joyesh - welcome aboard!

Bought your book yay

@BillHilton

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much! Shout if you have any questions about it! :)

Thank you so much for creating these videos. It's really helpful, and I learned more about chord and music than the traditional classical music training.

@BillHilton

5 жыл бұрын

No problem - glad to be of help!

So good teacher

@BillHilton

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Joshua!

Hey :) Really love your tutorials! Which piano do you have?

@BillHilton

7 жыл бұрын

It's a Nord NP-88 stage piano :)

@xXKariXxOS

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for the answer! :) Have a nice christmas time!

Is it just me or do 7th chords almost always sound nicer than their triad counterparts.

@TheBunnycult

7 жыл бұрын

I think it will always depend on context. sometimes 7th chords add too much given their position in a progression and a triad will fit better. further more, 9ths and 13th always have their place too.

@BillHilton

7 жыл бұрын

Ryland makes a good point, there - there's also the question of the harmonic functions of some seventh chords. So, for example, a dominant seventh creates various kinds of instability, and wants to resolve to the chord a fifth below it (except in certain contexts, eg the blues). As always, it's kind of worth playing around and using your ears to figure out what works!

@HammondB200

7 жыл бұрын

its you

@joshuapa9515

6 жыл бұрын

Nice only not to bad he is good enough to teach

I have a number of full score arrangements for easy piano. I would like to fatten them up a bit by adding additional notes to the right handed melody notes, and maybe adding the 9th to the left hand etc. The problem is that there are no written chord symbols to guide me. Is there an easy way to work out the chords in the arrangement ?

@BillHilton

4 жыл бұрын

Hi David: good question. Yes there is, but it's fairly laborious: you have to go through the whole thing and work out the chords bar by bar, usually focussing on the bassline to give you a clue, and then the notes above the bass, along with the sound of the thing when you play it and the expected chords for the key you're in. So not necessarily easy - on the other hand, going through and working them out would do a vast amount for your music theory knowledge, so by all means give it a go...!

@triffid9902

4 жыл бұрын

@@BillHilton Hmmm , sounds like hard work. But thanks for replying Bill.

🙏 thank u

Many thanks Bill! Do u have a tutorial on using slash chords when arranging traditional songs!

@BillHilton

4 жыл бұрын

No problem! Not as such, or at least not yet....! Have you seen my tutorial on slash chords basics? It might possibly be below you level, but could be useful: kzread.info/dash/bejne/c4mG06Z-p7DJm5c.html

@S24W2

4 жыл бұрын

@@BillHilton I saw that, it was very useful, thanks Bill! If at all possible you might do a video on how to accompany Irish airs etc? With perhaps some chord substitutions put in as I see in a lot of Irish songs, there are often non diatonic chords present!

Nice

After watching I tried to work out 'Inside of me' by Madonna but I was not able to do it. Then I cheated and looked up the first page of the score. It is in Bb minor, and surprisingly the song never goes to the tonic, at least on the first page !!! There is Gbmaj7 (the VI), Ebm9 (the IV), and Fm7(4) (the V), but it does not resolve to Bbm (the I), and when I hear the song, it apparently continues like that. This was really bad luck, and I assume that this situation is rare in pop songs.

@BillHilton

5 жыл бұрын

Aha - yes, if I remember right it's a bit of an odd one that sits in a kind of no-man's-land between the major key and it's relative minor, never fully settling on either. I'll have a listen in a bit and come back if I think of anything useful to say about it...!

This was just what I was looking for 😂

Thx, really helpfull!!

Wow I love playing the 🎹 piano BC of this video 😍😍😍😍😍

@BillHilton

Жыл бұрын

Glad to hear it Daniella - always good to hear when my tutorials help people out!

Hi.what is the name of that keyboard??

@BillHilton

7 ай бұрын

It's a Nord Piano 88 from 2011 :)

What if a song sounds neither major or minor? Trying to transcribe dragon age inquisition theme, but having trouble determining if it's major or minor. Thoughts?

@BillHilton

7 жыл бұрын

That's a very good question, Reagan, because music can be either major or minor; both (at different times); or neither. If it's neither it's usually because it's modal: a mode is a different type of scale that's neither major or minor, and which, like a major or minor scale, has its own chords. Most "songs" (as we think of them) are minor or major, but a lot of other music, and especially movie and game music, and quite a lot of more recent classical music, is modal. Based on a very quick listen to the main theme from Dragon Age Inquisition, it's principally in D mixolydian mode (Google it...) with some bits in D natural minor. The opening slow theme (notes D-A-D-A-C-B-A over what sounds like D major and A minor chords (the I and v of D mixolydian) is definitely mixolydian, but the uptempo section later is more obviously minor. The tldr here is that, yes, it can me more complex than just major and minor, but not usually in popular songs. A great excuse to learn about modes, if you ask me! Does that help?

@BCC288

7 жыл бұрын

how do you figure it out though?

Hey can I send you an audio track and u find the chords and melody for it . I'll pay

@victorkinka

4 жыл бұрын

Send to me...i write music

Someone wanna help me find the melody of the song Hot Outside by Tray Loop? Lol j search it up 😊

What make of Piano is that?

@BillHilton

5 жыл бұрын

It's a Nord Piano 2 (NP-88)!

Hi

Nice song please help me to play step by step instructions for me urgently

Glad you didn't mention that every song can be played in any key lol that throws a curve ball in things

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